Scorn vs Scoring - What's the difference?
scorn | scoring |
To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
* C. J. Smith
To scoff, express contempt.
To reject, turn down
To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
(uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
(countable) A display of disdain; a slight.
* Dryden
(countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.
* Bible, Psalms xliv. 13
Of something or someone that scores.
The process of keeping score in a sport or contest.
The process of winning points in a sport or contest.
The action of scratching paper or other material to make it easier to fold.
As verbs the difference between scorn and scoring
is that scorn is to feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise while scoring is .As nouns the difference between scorn and scoring
is that scorn is (uncountable) contempt or disdain while scoring is the process of keeping score in a sport or contest.As an adjective scoring is
of something or someone that scores.scorn
English
Verb
(en verb)- We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.
- He scorned her romantic advances.
- She scorned to show weakness.
Synonyms
* See alsoNoun
- Every sullen frown and bitter scorn / But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.
- Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Usage notes
* Scorn'' is often used in the phrases ''pour scorn on'' and ''heap scorn on .Quotations
* circa 1605': The cry is still 'They come': our castle's strength / Will laugh a siege to '''scorn — '' * 1967', Rain of tears, real, mist of imagined '''scorn — John Berryman, ''Berryman's Sonnets . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* scornfulAnagrams
*scoring
English
Adjective
- The highest scoring team will win the match.
Noun
(en noun)- The scoring of a tennis match is overseen by a single referee.
- Scoring a basket in basketball is worth two or three points.